Secrets of the Zona Rosa: How Writing (and Sisterhood) Can Change Women's Lives

A writing guide featuring the wisdom and stories of Zona Rosa, the creative writing workshop that’s inspired thousands of women

For more than twenty-four years, Rosemary Daniell—Southern belle, successful writer, and tireless champion of female empowerment—has led Zona Rosa, a writing workshop for women that’s founded on the premise that writing can be not only a creative challenge but a tool for healing. Here, she shares the secrets of Zona Rosa: practical advice and home-grown “Exorcises” that help you face and think through writing issues, and life in general.

You’ll learn how to avoid the “13 (Possible) Boo Boos” that plague everyone’s writing. You’ll bring yourself to “Write About the Thing I Most Don’t Want to Write About” and will learn how facing the difficult past can lead to breakthroughs. You’ll discover “The Emotional Tai Chi of Getting Your Work Out There,” with suggestions for painlessly sending your work into the world.

Along the way, you’ll meet some of the many women who’ve improved their writing—and lives—through the sisterhood, constructive advice, and wacky fun of Zona Rosa. And you’ll be inspired by Daniell herself, who’s weathered personal tragedy, bad love, and her own writing issues to come out singing. Secrets of the Zona Rosa is essential reading for any woman who writes—and who’s lived.